Starlink 1522

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https://orbinauts.com/satellites/46027

  • Communications satellite
  • STARLINK-1522
  • NORAD 46027
  • 2020-055A
  • Low Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Starlink 1522 is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Atlantic Ocean

Orbit ends over the United States of America

Sunlit since

Enters the Earth’s shadow

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Starlink 1522 go over, but a receiver still asks whether it is above the horizon. Say where you are and this card answers.

Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and sent only to the Orbinauts API, to find the pass.

No brightness has been published for Starlink 1522, so it is not a naked-eye satellite and no city page carries pass times for it. Nothing here estimates one.

Seeing it

There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint for the naked eye. What reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

Summary

Over Canada LIVE

Where is Starlink 1522?

At 3:39:58 PM UTC Starlink 1522 was over Canada (51° N, 94.2° W), 512 km up, moving at 7.62 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Starlink 1522?

A communications satellite in low Earth orbit, in space since Aug 7, 2020.

Can I see Starlink 1522?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Starlink 1522, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
SpaceX (Seattle)
State
United States of America
Built by
SpaceX (Seattle)
What it is
Communications satellite
Launched
Mass
260 kg
Operating
Yes
Orbit class
Low Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
3:39 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
3:39 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
51° N, 94.2° W
Altitude
512 km
Speed
7.62 km/s (27,414 km/h)
Course
east
Light
In sunlight until 4:29 PM UTC
Inclination
53.1°
Orbital period
94.8 minutes
Orbits per day
15.2
This orbit
506 to 509 km
In shadow
33 minutes of each orbit
In view from
Within 1,590 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 11, 2026, 6:41 PM, 20 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 11, 2026, 6:41 PM, 20 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Starlink 1522, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Starlink 1522 has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 12, 2026, 6:05 AM, 8 hours old. Only approaches serious enough to be reported publicly are listed: within three days and, for two bodies near the Earth, closer than a kilometre with a chance of a collision above 1 in 10,000, the level at which NASA moves the ISS.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Starlink 1522 shares its launch, 2020-055, with 32 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
STARLINK-1523Communications satellite
STARLINK-1526Communications satellite
STARLINK-1555Communications satellite
STARLINK-1556Communications satellite
STARLINK-1557Communications satellite
STARLINK-1558Communications satellite
STARLINK-1560Communications satellite
STARLINK-1569Communications satellite
STARLINK-1582Communications satellite
STARLINK-1591Communications satellite
STARLINK-1524Communications satellite
STARLINK-1527Communications satellite
STARLINK-1540Communications satellite
STARLINK-1543Communications satellite
STARLINK-1548Communications satellite
STARLINK-1554Communications satellite
STARLINK-1564Communications satellite
STARLINK-1570Communications satellite
STARLINK-1572Communications satellite
STARLINK-1573Communications satellite
STARLINK-1577Communications satellite
STARLINK-1583Communications satellite
STARLINK-1536Communications satellite
STARLINK-1542Communications satellite
STARLINK-1549Communications satellite
STARLINK-1551Communications satellite
STARLINK-1552Communications satellite
STARLINK-1559Communications satellite
STARLINK-1566Communications satellite
STARLINK-1568Communications satellite
STARLINK-1578Communications satellite
STARLINK-1579Communications satellite

Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Starlink 1522506 to 509 km95 minutes260 kg2020
BlueWalker 3443 to 453 km94 minutesabout 1.5 t2022
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 11, 2026, 6:41 PM, 20 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "STARLINK-1522",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2020-055A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-11T18:41:20.911200",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 15.19525808,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.00021048,
  "INCLINATION": 53.0629,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 83.7519,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 118.0346,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 242.0862,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 46027,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 34632,
  "BSTAR": 0.0017008325,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 0.00036449,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}